Libertroph Magazine
Art and stories about white anti-racist organizing, past & present
Lineage
Issue 02
Our Lineage is limitless: A letter from the editor
Letter by Alyssa Smaldino
“As organizers and artists who seek to end the terror of racism, it is our duty, in part, to unveil the stories of the ancestors who can show us the way.”
Reclaiming our Indigenous European roots
Essay by Lyla Jane
Our ancient ancestors are alive, whispering to our hearts
To be a good ancestor
Visual art and essay by nicholas b jacobsen
Confronting the horrors of an inheritance, restoring a soul
Lessons from the Blackthorn on becoming warriors in the fight for liberation
Cuán McCann in conversation with Julienne Kaleta
“I know that colonizers don't control the future, and I fucking act like it.”
Deliverance
Visual art by Leah Jo Carnine, Poetry by Caroline Picker
We can become the neighbors we need
Let the history of the world answer: Angelina Grimké's abolitionist journey
Profile by Dr. Alicia Wargo
Courage transcends hostility
Survival and beyond
Essay by Pam Nath
“I could finally see that white supremacy constrains all of our choices.”
The heart of the race problem still beats
Profile by Orissa Arend
Preaching against the politician’s trump-card
Inherited radicalism and my Great Uncle Frank Abarno
Profile by Frank Gargione
Tear down the system, but don't forget to laugh
TO ALL TO WHOM these Presents shall come
Visual art and Poetry by Maren Cadwallender
Evidence of Presents, re-gifted to the land
Breaking rank: On the legacy of Anne Braden and the fight for our future
Profile by Beth Howard
Our kind of Southern woman
In the River with the ancestors
Essay by Lynn Burnett
“The ancestors are flowing into us. They are a part of us, and we are a part of them.”
Catching Fire
Visual art by Leah Jo Carnine, Poetry by Caroline Picker
Black people will be free
The courage to act imperfectly: From white guilt to white race treason
Profile by Kate Davis Jones
Denounce white club membership, become a race traitor
Loosening our grips on Italian American nostalgia
Essay by Erika Bernabei
“Am I trying to give up my whiteness, perform an ablution, by becoming more Italian?”
This year as usual
Essay and Poetry by Norma Smith
On Passover’s legacy of liberatory story-sharing
Remembering the rough edges
Essay by Patricia Maher
Go home and work on racism
Betraying the idea of race with Mab Segrest
Profile by Dr. Alicia Wargo
“Mab’s complex relationship with her family became central to her understanding of how racism is learned and perpetuated”
Reclaiming "bad kin": The power of writing toward settler-ancestors
Essay and Poetry by Zoë Fay-Stindt and Geneva Toland
Poetry as practice, poetry as prayer
A spell for returning the curse of white supremacy
Spell by alexandra ("ahlay") blakely
An abolitionist incantation
Explore the people, organizations and publications who are named in this issue and have contributed to anti-racist organizing efforts.